Proposal responds to community requests for expanded public parkland and a range of for-sale homes As cities across California struggle with how to respond to state law and housing mandates, the master planning process for the Oak Creek Golf Course in Irvine has served as a model for other communities to emulate. The transparent process […]
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Irvine and other cities to consider supporting key reforms Orange County families are rationing electricity and soon will be going without AC in triple-digit heat because their power bills have doubled in just a decade. Nearly one in five Southern California Edison (SCE) customers are now behind on their bills by $833 on average. While […]
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For an organization entrusted with millions of taxpayer dollars and tasked with solving one of Irvine’s most critical challenges—permanent affordable housing—the Irvine Community Land Trust (ICLT) continues to operate in a manner that suggests it would rather the community stay in the dark. The most recent breach of public trust comes right before its quarterly […]
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Eight years ago, a handful of Irvine residents did something quietly radical. Armed with no newsroom budget, no advertising revenue, and no institutional backing, they launched Irvine Watchdog — a volunteer-run, nonprofit publication built on three deceptively simple words: transparency, accountability, and honesty. Founded in May 2018, Irvine Watchdog set out to be a […]
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At the April 28 Irvine city council meeting, agenda item 5.2 Ranked Choice Voting Adoption was discussed by the councilmembers. Watch the council meeting video on the RCV agenda item here. The council voted 4-3 to have an ordinance drafted for the use of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for Irvine mayoral and city council elections […]
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As much as any other place, Irvine is a project. Conceived by the Irvine Company, planned by an architect, and charted according to its much-vaunted master plan, this city has always been the product of deliberate, top-down intention rather than organic, bottom-up coincidence. But intention is always a complicated beast. It carries with it assumptions, […]
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